Last night I watched with shame as Jews for the
Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO) recounted a
chronology of genocidal events of the last 100 years in its
DVD Innocents Betrayed. JPFO estimated that
governments have killed 170,000,000 of their own people
since the Turks began exterminating Armenians in the early
1900s. The message JPFO was attempting to deliver was that
the victims of murderous regimes in the past had been
disarmed and were, therefore, defenseless against armed
oppressors.

The message I received from the DVD was a little different.
Though it is impossible to ignore that genocidal events are
traditionally preceded by disarmament, I believe the JPFO
failed to identify the real murderers. I also believe that
legions of mass murderers are being raised up right now in
the land of the free. As painful as it may be, we must
remember history identify them now -- before it is too
late.

They are us.

We are quick to say Hitler did it, or
Stalin (Mao Tse Tung, Pol Pot, Idi Amin et. al) did
it. But let me ask you, did Hitler personally pull
the trigger on all those people he is accused of mass
murdering? Did Stalin? Did Mao Tse Tung, Pol Pot or Idi
Amin kill all the defenseless people they are accused of
killing? Of course not. We did it for them.

Innocents Betrayed noted that a period of demonizing
certain groups of people and passing special prohibitions
against them are also part of the process leading up to a
coordinated and concentrated effort to exterminate them.
But the logistics of killing thousands or even millions of
people are such that the masses must either support or
actively participate in the bloodbath for it to take place.
With this understanding, the Hitlers and Stalins of history
are merely leaders with sick fantasies and we are the dupes
who can be counted on to make their murderous fantasies
come to life.

Who's next on the list to be mass murdered by people
following the lead of their own government? Who do you
resent right now -- blacks, whites, Mexicans, Asians,
Muslims, Jews, gays, lesbians, drug addicts, drunks,
convicted felons, Protestants, Catholics, Republicans,
Democrats, Arabs, rich people, poor people, attorneys,
judges, drug-dealing doctors, government employees,
government contractors, corporate executives? At this
moment, by governmental decree and in the press we are all
being encouraged to be distrustful of other groups and view
each other as adversaries.

Based upon the history as I have come to relearn it and as
it was so concisely reported in Innocents Betrayed, I
believe we are being set up in this country to justify a
program of mass-murdering certain groups of people -- we
just don't know which ones, yet. Will it be a group we are
in? Will it be groups for which we decidedly dislike? Will
I (or you) be so relieved it is not ourselves singled out
for destruction that we will happily participate in the
wanton destruction and mass murder of others?

As horrible as it may be to look at ourselves in a
historical mirror, we must. It takes millions to kill
millions and, if history is our guide, then we can see the
next genocidal event is coming. 21st century America is as
likely a place for it to occur as any.

The question then becomes, If your leader tells you
to hate groups of innocent people to death, will you
actively help round them up for extermination, silently
allow the crimes to be committed, or resist as a matter of
principle? (DWH)